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Category: Training, support & events

Reports from our training and events, both UWP-run and external; updates on new training we’re developing, and why.

In last month’s support clinic, we conducted a ‘QA‘ assessment: a review of a site that is due to go live, to ensure it meets the best practices of the University website.

In lieu of an in-person Web Publishers’ Community session this month, we put together an update from the University Website Programme and Web Integration teams which was circulated to the WPC email list last week. You can catch up with what was said below:

At the end of last year, I ran an open invite session for web publishers, developers and project managers in which I outlined how we’re conducting rapid, iterative usability testing as part of the development of the new University CMS, EdWeb. The presentation was followed by a demo of the process in which everyone participated.

At this month’s Web Publishers Community session we had a busy line-up. Duncan MacGruer gave us an update on the EdWeb project and introduced us to the EdWeb Migration Handbook, which is now available on the support wiki. Neil Allison explained the idea of applying ‘Agile’ principles to usability testing. In the more technical second […]

Yesterday at the Web Publishers Community, I gave a presentation in which I ran through how we manage to squeeze usability testing of the new CMS into each 3 week development burst. It was a preview of an event I’m running later in December which is now open for booking.

We had a very good meeting recently with colleagues from across the University engaged in delivery of training, awareness raising, and guidelines revision for social media activities. It is clear that there’s a lot going on. Louise Connelly, from the IAD, shared with us her early insights into the results of the Digital footprint campaign.

Sitting on the bus the other day, I picked up a copy of the free newspaper – the Metro. The outermost pages were an advert for the electrical retailer, Currys. It was a really nice ad that was essentially selling the user experience of technology. I took it back to the office to share with […]

It’s been a busy month at UWP’s Website Support Clinic, with every Tuesday afternoon booked up with drop-ins.

I was very pleased to host a meeting of web managers from universities across Scotland and the north east of England here in the wonderful Moray House on 12 November 2014.

I attended an interesting conference just recently, organised by Universities UK. Entitled “Using Digital innovation to enhance university marketing and communications”, the slides can be accessed via the link at the foot of this blog post.

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